Sports Day 2021!

On your marks, Get set, Go!
Year 2 took to the field to take part in our whole school Sports Day 2021. The children showed off their amazing throwing skills with the shot put. They zoomed through the obstacle course and made light work of the 25 m sprint. Plenty of concentration was required for the football station. The children had great fun cheering on their houses and everyone enjoyed a well deserved ice-pop at the end. Congratulations to St. Vincent House, the overall winners of Sports Day 2021!

Fun Day 2021!

Go-Carts + bouncy castles +Mr Magic + face-painting + crafting = A fun-filled day!

Home Learning:

Sign up for the Hertfordshire Libraries Summer Reading Challenge!

https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Enjoy the football final…. fingers crossed for England! It’s coming home!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Davey

We have launched into our new unit in Science – Living Things and their Habitats. The children had great fun exploring the different micro-habitats in our outdoor areas. The children learnt the difference between things that are alive, things that are dead and things that have never been alive.  They recorded their answers with beautiful pictures and labels.

What is a food chain? A food chain is a way of showing how plants and animals get their energy. Usually, they start with a producer. This is something like a plant that makes its own energy from sunlight. The steps after this are consumers. They get energy by eating the organism that comes before them in the chain. There were plenty of ‘army ants’ in Year 2, working together to create different food chains.

We put the finishing touches to our Religion display in our classroom. Everyone wrote a beautiful retelling of Jesus calling the four fishermen.

We ended the week with a special Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The children showed great reverence and were fantastic witnesses to our faith.

Have a peaceful weekend,

Miss Davey

Home Learning:

Studyladder: Maths – Place Value revision

English Spellings: Theme based spellings – Numbers

In our RSE lesson we talked about Physical Contact. Click the link below if you would like more information.

This week Year 2 have been focusing on the story of Pentecost which celebrates and remembers the coming of the Holy Spirit. The children created some beautiful art work for our sacred space and went on to retell the story of Pentecost.

In Maths, we have been concentrating on telling the time. We pretended to be clocks, turning clockwise and anti-clockwise. There were lots of hands turning … half turns, full turns, quarter turns. Everyone used great reasoning to prove their times.

In Science we have been thinking about the properties of different materials. The children were challenged to design and to make a building for a toy company. In order to sell their product, the toy company wanted like to know why the children choose the materials for the walls, windows, roof, etc..  The finished products were brilliant!!!

Home Learning:

Studyladder:

Telling the time, Adding on 50, Reading High frequency sight words.

Science: Nature table – Please bring in any objects to add to our nature table. From feathers to fossils or twigs to seeds…. whatever natural objects you find on your adventures in the wild.. you can share in class on our nature table.

Have a peaceful weekend,

Miss Davey

Bring flowers of the rarest, bring flowers of the fairest

From garden and woodland and hillside and vale;

Our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling

The praise of the loveliest flower of the vale.

O Mary, we crown you with blossoms today,

Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May.

Today we celebrated the month of May by holding our May procession to honour Our Lady.  We reflected on the life of Our Lady and processed towards the Peace Garden where we placed our flowers.

In English, the children completed the first draft of their animal adventure stories. We are looking forward to editing our writing next week and making additions. We have been revising number and place value in Maths. I have been very impressed with everyone’s number facts and mental maths fluency.

There are plenty of green fingers in Year 2 and we have enjoyed planting onions and tending to the flowerbeds this week. There are many packets of seeds to sow next week… especially the giant sunflower seeds. We are hoping for a bumper crop!

Home Learning:

Spellings: Common exception words –